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35.1 <tt class="module">sunaudiodev</tt> --
         Access to Sun audio hardware</a>
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This module allows you to access the Sun audio interface. The Sun
audio hardware is capable of recording and playing back audio data
in u-LAW<a id='l2h-5736' xml:id='l2h-5736'></a> format with a sample rate of 8K per second. A
full description can be found in the <span class="manpage"><i>audio</i>(7I)</span> manual page.

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<tt class="module"><a href="module-sunaudiodev-constants.html">SUNAUDIODEV</a></tt><a id='l2h-5737' xml:id='l2h-5737'></a> 
defines constants which may be used with this module.

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This module defines the following variables and functions:

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This exception is raised on all errors. The argument is a string
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This function opens the audio device and returns a Sun audio device
object. This object can then be used to do I/O on. The <var>mode</var> parameter
is one of <code>'r'</code> for record-only access, <code>'w'</code> for play-only
access, <code>'rw'</code> for both and <code>'control'</code> for access to the
control device. Since only one process is allowed to have the recorder
or player open at the same time it is a good idea to open the device
only for the activity needed. See <span class="manpage"><i>audio</i>(7I)</span> for details.

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As per the manpage, this module first looks in the environment
variable <code>AUDIODEV</code> for the base audio device filename.  If not
found, it falls back to <span class="file">/dev/audio</span>.  The control device is
calculated by appending ``ctl'' to the base audio device.
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